Police say the two teenagers who allegedly shot and killed a Florida police officer before killing themselves left suicide notes, the News 13 reported.
Windermere police Officer Robert German was shot and killed on Saturday morning after he stopped two persons walking along Conroy-Windermere Road and Horizon Circle, News 13 reported. The persons, said to be 18-year-old Brandon Goode and 17-year-old Alexandria Hollinghurst, were found dead not far from German's body. The two apparently killed themselves after shooting German.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office said in a Monday statement that suicide notes have been found.
"While Goode and Hollinghurst died of what is believed to be gunshot wounds from apparent suicide, we are awaiting the Medical Examiner's findings for an exact cause of death," the sheriff's office said according to the Orlando Sentinel.
The investigation into the two suspects found they had fled from police the day before the shooting.
The teenagers were seen driving a silver SUV in a Walgreens parking lot in the city of Kissimmee on Friday morning. Kissimmee police stopped Goode and Hollinghurst, but the two drove away when they were asked to step out the car.
Goode "drove erratically through the parking lot with wanton disregard for pedestrians or other vehicular traffic in the parking lot nearly striking a family walking through the parking lot with a child in the stroller," according to a police report obtained by News 13.
The teenagers allegedly drove to Windermere where they shot German at around 4 a.m.. The officer was found dead when the backup he called for arrived, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
Investigators also learned that Goode, from Davenport, was arrested for felony assault in October 2012 after he allegedly threatened his mother with an ax. Goode's mother told Polk County police that he wanted her to accept his father's divorce settlement, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
Goode and Hollinghurst were also arrested in February on drug and alcohol charges, the newspaper reported.
Investigators have not yet confirmed a motive for German's murder.
